Have a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or equivalent experience

Course Content

Through hands-on labs, students will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, centrally manage playbooks and schedule recurring execution through a web interface with Ansible Tower. Students will also learn to manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault, deploy Ansible Tower and use it to manage systems, and use Ansible in a DevOps environment with Vagrant

Course Objectives

Describe the terminology and architecture of Ansible

Install Ansible and run ad hoc commands

Write Ansible plays and execute a playbook

Describe variable scope and precedence, manage variables and facts in a play, and manage inclusions